100mph Petition. Yay or nay?

[st3v3]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/651666


Personally I think it's very long overdue.
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[Pete.]

In an election year. Yeah, great idea. I mean it's never going to happen but certainly not right now.
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[Polarbear]

Nope, never going to happen as much as i would like it. It's mildly amusing that the speed limits were set when cars like the Anglia were around that struggled to reach 70 anyway

What on earth would they have to bleat about on reality police shows if they couldn't say 'he was doing over 100mph, think of the kittens'.

Other than Germany our national speed limits are pretty much on par with other European countries anyway.
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[Diggs]

Only a good idea if leaving a decent gap is enforced/becomes the social norm. We may all think we have the reactions of a cobra but the truth is most of us don't.
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[rpsmith79]

No going to happen, they have already lowered the speed limt permanatly on a stretch of the M1 past Sheffield/Rovrum to 60mph, sighting "air Quality" as the main reason

[Easy-X]

100mph straightaway? Seems mad. Staged over several years 80, 90, 100 with monitoring of accidents etc. would make more sense.

100 really means people feel comfortable doing 110+ same as 70mph means 80~90 (unless there are cameras about.)
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[Feasty]

Never going to happen, much as the vast majority of us would like it to be.

Although cars have improved hugely since the 70mph speed limit was introduced, the number of cars has increased massively and we literally don't have room for those sort of speeds safely anymore. Perhaps a possible option is to have increased speed limits during quiet hours, rather than just reducing speed limits during busy hours.

As an aside, I've always found the whole distance between cars measurement ridiculous from an official standpoint. It doesn't take into account that if the person in front of you brakes they don't come to an instant stop, so you get more room to effect evasive manoeuvres than they say anyway.

As for Sheffield M1, do not get me started!! What a fucking joke... can't remember the last time I saw it at 60mph anyway with the continuous roadworks slowing it to 50mph. And if it is due to 'air quality' why are they not letting all the electric cars go faster? They're not contributing to poor air quality (and no, I don't have one).
It was great to have the Parkway from Sheffield to the M1 increased to 4 lanes fairly recently, but of course again that's short lived - they've now closed 2 of them off for roadworks and it's all gone back to queuing again.

So to talk of increasing any speed limits, there's just no point until the roads are actually open long enough to be able to use for that.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Not whilst you have a hole in your arse will that happen.
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[Polarbear]

[Ste]

Cars doing 100mph and whilst lorries are still doing 60mph on smart motorways that don't have hard shoulders couldn't possibly go wrong.

[st3v3]

...have any of you signed it though?

Good points made, particularly about EVs.
It's a widely accepted fact that after 8pm everyone ventures upto 100 so I can't see it would be that bigger change.

I am surprised though that the Jeremy Clarkson crowd haven't gone ape
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[DaddyStu]

The welsh idiotic politicians are rowing back on their 20mph now. Many roads expected to revert to 30.

Hope they reverse all the stealth drops they carried out too. 50's to 40's etc.
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[Tierbirdy]

Never gonna happen, and to be honest does it really need to be? Generally I find anything above 80 and my fuel economy just absolutely tanks,so I sit at an indicated 80 knowing Im doing about 75-ish according to GPS speed and in the sweet spot of making progress and not having to fuel up every half hour.

Now what Id really love to see is like some US states where at night they switch off traffic lights or just have a 4 way flashing amber. Theres one total fucker of a roundabout on my way to work that always goes red as I approach it, stays red for about 10 minutes as it cycles through every other entrance which of course no fucker is using because its 4am and what idiot is up on the roads at that time? And of course it has a red light camera too because they know full well people would totally ignore it if they could.

The problem is, the general public are thick as clotted pig shit and need protecting from themselves. Just look at the retards who manage to crash on a straight bit of motorway. There should be a second driving licence for people who aren't complete spastics and are allowed a little more leeway with the rules

[Capt Sisko]

The fact petition is four months into its six month run and only has 5,500 signatures kind of shows the lack of interest. Given the state of our roads, volume of traffic and falling standard of driving, personally I think it's a bonkers idea.

[TravisBickle]

Signed the whole family up.

As everyone else has said, it won't happen, but take that attitude and nobody would ever vote. Took me less than 5 minutes. No big deal.

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

I cannot support it.

It would be nice to do for myself, but it opens the floodgates to loads of younger drivers and drivers who are absolute fannies hooning around 100 - 120mph more than there is now.

I wholly believe in letting natural selection run it's course. If the oik cunts were killing themselves that's one thing but it's the innocent people in other cars they smash into I am thinking about.
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[RhynoCZ]

100 mph, you say? Sure, as Polarbear says, the current speed limit of 80 mph was set back when... but so were the roads in question built.

As for the German model, their TüV (MOT) ensures only the tourists drive poor condition cars there. Let's not forget, that Germans are also rather orderly drivers, so once again, only tourists do stupid things on the Autobahn.

I visited Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg last year. Now, roughly 60% of the time on the Autobahn, going from the very east of Bavaria to the very west of the Baden-Württemberg there was a speed limit of 130 km/h, due to poor road condition, dense traffic and road works of all sorts.

Anyway, it was cool to cruise at 180 km/h when possible, reaching the top speed of 235 km/h. You get comfortable very quickly. That being said, the only time I've realised how fast I was going was the time I had to do emergency braking from said 180 km/h down to about 100 km/h, because of one unorderly tourist driver. So, that's one thing to take into consideration, especially when it's safe to say, as Easy-X mentions, the British MOT, just like the Czech equivalent, is not as strict as the German TüV.
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[TravisBickle]

Yeah fair enough

All good points

I have to admit I'm always appalled at the quality of UK drivers when I get back from a drive/ride on the continent. It's not just the Germans (although they may be the cream) I find the French and Spaniards very good drivers also (with the exception of Paris and a small radius around it, they all drive like total cunts!).
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